30 Years Ago Today - A Visit With A Friend

It is hard to believe that this video was taken thirty years ago today.  Man, we're getting old.

I'm not giving names in case those in the video don't want to be identified.  Enjoy.

Catching The Rabbit

 I took Ruby for a walk this past weekend, and she flushed a rabbit out of the field. If she hadn't reached the end of her leash, she would have caught it! She was super excited by that, and when we got home I remembered I had bought and stashed away a toy rabbit to give to her during this stay at home period. So I gave it to her. She went nuts! She was so happy she could finally catch the rabbit!

These are a few photos from when she slowed down enough for the photo not to be blurry.

It only took her about 10 minutes to tear the front arm off and get to the squeaker.

The next day, I sewed the arm back on for her.

New Refrigerator

 Well our refrigerator went on the fritz this week.  Sometimes it was cold, sometimes it was not.  I called a repairman and he said that today's refrigerators are closed systems - unless it was an electrical problem, it would be over $1000 to fix and probably not worth the effort.  He helped me troubleshoot over the phone, and found it wasn't the electrical so probably not worth fixing.  We made an emergency trip down to Lowes to find a new one.

We had intended to get a side-by-side like our last one, but they are getting to be a small slice of available choices.  I had not realized how out of fashion they are.

We were both initially against a french door model, but finally found one that had everything that was important to us.  We couldn't find a side-by-side that had everything we wanted.

 So we purchased this Tuesday evening and it was delivered just after lunch today.

 I'm not usually very excited by refrigerators.  I suppose being stuck at home has made it much more important to me now!

Ruby, however, was not impressed.

How The Chinese Handle COVID-19 Now

Now that they've been through it once, this is what the Chinese are doing now to keep it from being re-introduced into China.

Here in California:

• Most employers started having employees work from home starting the week of March 16th
• Governor Newsom closed all non-essential businesses on March 19th
• US Corona virus deaths reached 1000 on March 26th
• They predict the first two weeks in April will be the worst 

We'll see how this all pans out.